This fortnight, Nick and Alastair tackle the growth industry of TV series based on popular movies, with the new Snowpiercer show and the second season of What We Do In The Shadows.

But first, they touch on the recent Warren Ellis news, before Alastair talks up the latest Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London novel False Value, and Nick ecstatically reviews the new Harley Quinn animated series.

And then they launch into covering the first five episodes of Snowpiercer (12:37), complete with chat about how it compares to the cult movie (surprisingly Alastair’s seen it while Nick hasn’t), the American TV drive to turn everything into a cop show and a few implied spoilers for the fourth and fifth episodes.

Lastly, Nick and Alastair catch all the way up on What We Do In The Shadows (24:49), with talk of all their favourite characters, heavy admiration for Matt Berry and, surprisingly, the fact they’ve both seen the original film.

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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair take off with Space Force, then venture into the forest of Family Tree.

But first, Nick’s gone back and read the original classic run on The Authority by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, while Alastair’s spent time watching plays like Frankenstein, Coriolanus and A Streetcar Named Desire on the National Theatre YouTube channel.

After all that, Space Force (12:30) waits for them in the stars (on Netflix). Can a new show from the lead writer and star of The Office US live up to that starry pedigree?

And then another big name – podcast favourite comic writer Jeff Lemire and artist Phil Hester bring us Family Tree (29:14), their new plant-horror book from Image Comics.

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